High-quality genome assembly and resequencing of modern cotton cultivars provide resources for crop improvement

Z Ma, Y Zhang, L Wu, G Zhang, Z Sun, Z Li, Y Jiang… - Nature Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Cotton produces natural fiber for the textile industry. The genetic effects of genomic structural
variations underlying agronomic traits remain unclear. Here, we generate two high-quality …

The Gossypium longicalyx Genome as a Resource for Cotton Breeding and Evolution

CE Grover, M Pan, D Yuan, MA Arick… - G3: Genes …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Cotton is an important crop that has made significant gains in production over the last
century. Emerging pests such as the reniform nematode have threatened cotton production …

Gossypium genomics: trends, scope, and utilization for cotton improvement

Z Yang, G Qanmber, Z Wang, Z Yang, F Li - Trends in plant science, 2020 - cell.com
Cotton (Gossypium spp.) is the most important natural fiber crop worldwide. The diversity of
Gossypium species also provides an ideal model for investigating evolution and …

Widespread incomplete lineage sorting and introgression shaped adaptive radiation in the Gossypium genus

Y Xu, Y Wei, Z Zhou, X Cai, SA Boden, MJ Umer… - Plant …, 2024 - cell.com
Cotton (Gossypium) stands as a crucial economic crop, serving as the primary source of
natural fiber for the textile sector. However, the evolutionary mechanisms driving speciation …

Persistence of subgenomes in paleopolyploid cotton after 60 my of evolution

S Renny-Byfield, L Gong, JP Gallagher… - … biology and evolution, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The importance of whole-genome multiplication (WGM) in plant evolution has long been
recognized. In flowering plants, WGM is both ubiquitous and in many lineages cyclical, each …

PolyCat: a resource for genome categorization of sequencing reads from allopolyploid organisms

JT Page, AR Gingle, JA Udall - G3: Genes, genomes, genetics, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Read mapping is a fundamental part of next-generation genomic research but is
complicated by genome duplication in many plants. Categorizing DNA sequence reads into …

Genome-wide recombination rate variation in a recombination map of cotton

C Shen, X Li, R Zhang, Z Lin - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Recombination is crucial for genetic evolution, which not only provides new allele
combinations but also influences the biological evolution and efficacy of natural selection …

Chromatin loops associated with active genes and heterochromatin shape rice genome architecture for transcriptional regulation

L Zhao, S Wang, Z Cao, W Ouyang, Q Zhang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Insight into high-resolution three-dimensional genome organization and its effect on
transcription remains largely elusive in plants. Here, using a long-read ChIA-PET approach …

Differential lineage-specific amplification of transposable elements is responsible for genome size variation in Gossypium

JS Hawkins, HR Kim, JD Nason, RA Wing… - Genome …, 2006 - genome.cshlp.org
The DNA content of eukaryotic nuclei (C-value) varies∼ 200,000-fold, but there is only a∼
20-fold variation in the number of protein-coding genes. Hence, most C-value variation is …

MULTILOCUS INTERACTIONS RESTRICT GENE INTROGRESSION IN INTERSPECIFIC POPULATIONS OF POLYPLOID GOSSYPIUM (COTTON)

C Jiang, PW Chee, X Draye, PL Morrell, CW Smith… - …, 2000 - academic.oup.com
Abstract.—Experimental advanced‐generation backcross populations contain individuals
with genomic compositions similar to those resulting from interspecific hybridization in …